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Oracle the Spoiler Again Oracle takes out the big guns to defend its turf against its foe, SAP. Investors, take note.   |
The Motley Fool
March 12, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Oracle's Bipolar Quarter The database maker meets expectations, and hints it may not need PeopleSoft after all. |
BusinessWeek
April 4, 2005
Steve Hamm |
Larry, You Picked A Nasty Fight In taking on heavyweight SAP in the corporate applications software market, Oracle faces very long odds. |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Will the Sun Set in Oracle's Backyard? Larry Ellison is many things, but never a quitter. He will buy Sun in the end, but the question is why. |
The Motley Fool
March 22, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Larry Ellison Wins Again The battle for retail software applications vendor Retek ends, and Oracle comes out on top. Does any of this drama matter for shareholders? |
InternetNews
March 18, 2005
Michael Singer |
Oracle's Back to Its Bidding Ways The company challenges SAP's latest offer for Retek but this time without its CFO, Henry You. |
InternetNews
December 17, 2010 |
Oracle's Ellison Calls Out HP Larry Ellison makes it clear that Oracle has former close ally HP in its sites. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Has Larry Ellison Gone Crazy? With the PeopleSoft proposal unresolved, the Oracle chief preaches more acquisitions. |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2005
Tom Taulli |
SAP Gears Up for Battle Oracle's Ellison has made SAP enemy No. 1. But SAP is fighting back the right way: by getting customers. Despite the strong performance, SAP's stock price slid $0.92 to $39.38. |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2006
Tom Taulli |
Oracle's $19 Billion Payoff For the past few years, Oracle's Larry Ellison has talked about the benefits of consolidation. Now, it looks like the company is seeing some of those benefits. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Quick Take: When Larry Ellison Gets Stupid Oracle is accusing SAP of "corporate theft on a grand scale" after SAP division TomorrowNow allegedly downloaded more than 10,000 documents from Oracle's support site. |
InternetNews
March 22, 2005 |
Oracle Wins in Bid For Retek Offer of $11.25 per share wins out after rival SAP drops out of the bidding for the retail software play. |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Oracle's Bizarre Software Triangle Revelations in the Oracle-PeopleSoft trial continue to entertain. |
InternetNews
March 11, 2005
Michael Singer |
Oracle Woos, SAP Waits For Retek The two largest ERP software companies try to outbid each other in fight for retail software provider. |
The Motley Fool
March 1, 2005
Tom Taulli |
SAP Revs on the M&A Autobahn Europe's largest software company proves it can do deals, too announcing its purchase of Retek. On the news, Retek's stock surged 40%. This transaction is likely to not be the last M&A deal for the German giant. |
InternetNews
January 19, 2005
Michael Singer |
Ellison: Partners Key to Merger Success Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said key partnerships will help make the acquisition of PeopleSoft a complete success. |
BusinessWeek
April 9, 2007
Aaron Ricadela |
Oracle vs. SAP: Sound Or Fury? Larry Ellison's high-profile charges may be only PR, but that may be all he wants. |
InternetNews
October 15, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Why Oracle's Tops in Takeovers Industry watchers think BEA's days are numbered: Larry Ellison and Oracle have spent years and billions mastering the art of the takeover. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2005
Joshua Greenbaum |
Is Ghengis On the Hunt Again? Now that Oracle owns PeopleSoft, and all signs point to a reinvigorated push by Oracle into the enterprise applications space, it's worth wondering who CEO Larry Ellison has in his crosshairs. |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Bakes a Fine Cherry Pie Some of the deals for which Oracle paid out $5 billion last year are starting to pay big dividends for the company. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Delivers, Denounces a Rival Oracle's Ellison and his senior executive staff decided to rip into competitor SAP. Ellison then spent a good portion of the conference call outlining the many ways in which Oracle is outperforming its rival in enterprise-management software. |
The Motley Fool
September 10, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Next Stop, OracleSoft? Nope -- Oracle still has plenty of hurdles ahead, including possible scrutiny from the European Union. |
InternetNews
March 8, 2005
Paul Shread |
Oracle Makes Bid For Retek Investors react like they expect SAP to counter... WebMD reports expected results... Nasdaq slumps... Rising oil prices affect everyone... etc. |
The Motley Fool
November 16, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Beleaguered BEA Middleware developer BEA turns in a good quarter, despite juggling an options investigation and a hostile takeover attempt from Oracle. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2007
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Oracle Struts Its Software An acquisition spree over the past several years pays off nicely for Oracle. The enterprise software giant just closed out another impressive quarter, and it may just be getting warmed up. |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Oracle's Softwar? The database king ups its guidance as it prepares for a battle with rival SAP. |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Score One for Oracle The battle continues among the software giants, as SAP makes a surprising admission. The main thing for investors to consider is that Oracle has a clear strategy for growth: buying up companies. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Larry Plays "The Donald" Oracle's Ellison is the one telling 5,000, "You're fired!" Investors need to watch this one. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Sun Sets for $7.4 Billion Oracle announces a $7.4 billion, or $9.50 per share, deal for Sun Microsystems, ending rumors of a proposed acquisition by IBM. |
InternetNews
November 8, 2004
Roy Mark |
Oracle Prepared to Drop PeopleSoft Bid Oracle will drop its efforts to block PeopleSoft's defense to Oracle's hostile takeover bid if PeopleSoft's shareholders fail to tender a majority of their shares by Nov. 19, according to an Oracle letter sent to a Delaware court. |
InternetNews
March 22, 2005
Michael Singer |
Oracle, SAP: Upward Bound Analysts suggest Oracle's winning bid for the Minnesota-based retail software provider is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to potential mergers and acquisitions in the next 12 months. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2006
Tom Taulli |
2006 in Review: Oracle The brash company had a smashing 2006. Certainly, Oracle investors have nothing to complain about. |
InternetNews
June 23, 2004
Michael Singer |
Ellison 'Green' with Envy Analysts debate whether Oracle is after SAP's high-end or Microsoft's mid-tier. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Microsoft Grooves to M&A Bill Gates liked Groove Networks' programmer so much he bought the company. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2009
Tim Beyers |
You're Wrong to Sell Oracle The numbers weren't stellar, but the stock is still a buy. |
The Motley Fool
September 11, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Oracle's Not Backing Away From IBM Larry Ellison seems to be serious about keeping Sun's hardware business. He's trying hard to keep those precious customers, too. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Wants a Slice of the Big Data Pie Larry Ellison assures investors that Big Data actually represents a growth opportunity for Oracle.. |
BusinessWeek
September 27, 2004
Jim Kerstetter |
Peoplesoft: Ease the Inevitable Fighting Oracle's takeover bid made sense at first. Not anymore. Oracle's bid has plenty of upside for the company, and for investors, too. |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2004
Tim Beyers |
A Smart, Sleazy Stock Striptease Oracle's dangerous liaison with PeopleSoft mixes flirtation with rejection. |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2006
Tom Taulli |
Oracle Plays Both Sides Oracle goes shopping again -- for small fry companies. Despite spending nearly $20 billion in acquisitions over the past few years, it is not impressing shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Oracle: All Business, No Show There is little doubt that Oracle will continue to grow for the foreseeable future. The real question is, how quickly? Ellison and his gang need to come up with some organic growth outside of the mainstay database business. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
March 25, 2010 |
Oracle Shows Strength in Q3 Earnings Oracle beats the Street and credits its acquisition of Sun as part of the reason. |
The Motley Fool
July 7, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Software Meat Eaters It's war in the software business. According to PeopleSoft's management, Oracle's hostile bid and antitrust lawsuit is generating bad PR for the firm, which has had "substantial" adverse impact on the company's business. |
InternetNews
June 24, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Former Microsoft Exec is Oracle's CFO Gregory Maffei is taking his finance experience with Microsoft and heading over to Oracle. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2006
W.D. Crotty |
Dueling Fools: Oracle Bear While the stock has gone up 19.9% over the past 16 months, the earnings have gone nowhere. If you are still aching to buy Oracle, take a look at its five-year chart. It isn't pretty. |
The Motley Fool
November 10, 2011
Vibhuti Shah |
Have You Considered This Tech Powerhouse? The OpenWorld convention, a new product launch, and a foray into the hardware sector: do you need more reasons to invest in Oracle? |
InternetNews
March 22, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Oracle's Linux Claims Are a Head Scratcher Outspoken Oracle CEO Larry Ellison claims his company's Linux has displaced Red Hat at Yahoo. The problem is no one else agrees. |
InternetNews
March 15, 2005
Michael Singer |
Retail in Flux as Oracle Battles SAP Bidding war over Retek and differences in Oracle and SAP's culture are confusing the retail industry. |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Kicks Sun Into Shape There's more kicking to be done, but Larry Ellison's changes at Sun make a lot of sense. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2010
Madway & Randewich |
Oracle Unveils New Hardware for Managing Cloud Computing Oracle focuses on the cloud in competition with IBM and HP. |
